Shifting CDC testing guidance sparks backlash | TheHill
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Summary
Public health experts warn that the Trump administration’s change to testing guidance is a step backward in the COVID-19 response that could lead to more cases, outbreaks and deaths.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) altered its guidance this week to say people who have been exposed to COVID-19 “don’t necessarily need a test” if they don’t have symptoms, threatening contact tracing efforts which seek to stop lines of transmission. But the CDC did not address this fact in its most recent guidance or provide scientific evidence or data backing up its decision, frustrating experts.Redfield’s comments Thursday “didn’t deal at all with the fact that we know spread in the community is happening through people who are asymptomatic,” said Cynthia Sears, former president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, which wants the change reversed.
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